DAINI ROBERTA
- U06, Floor: 3, Room: 3026B
The office hour is held on Tuesdays at 2:30-3:30 pm.
The office hour, by appointment, can also be held remotely, connecting to:
https://meet.google.com/dov-cngo-ogi
Tuesday, July 22nd the office hour is suspended, as well as for the entire month of August. It will resume on Tuesday, September 2nd.
For urgent matters, write to the professor.
Research
Actual lines of research:
- Aging: effects of healthy aging on cognitive functioning (perception, attention, reading and eye movements) and cognitive training for cognitive enhancement.
- Face recognition: congenital prosopagnosia, processing of non-emotional facial expressions in neurologically healthy individuals and clinical populations.
- Clinical neuropsychology: mechanisms and efficacy of rehabilitation techniques in unilateral spatial neglect, acquired reading deficits in right brain-damaged patients, development of neuropsychological assessment tools.
- Experimental psychology: perception, attention, spatial cognition and consciousness.
Publications
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Gobbo, S., Lega, C., De Sandi, A., Daini, R. (2024). The role of preSMA and STS in face recognition: A transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) study. NEUROPSYCHOLOGIA, 198(6 June 2024) [10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.108877]. Detail
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Daini, R., Primativo, S., Albonico, A., Veronelli, L., Malaspina, M., Corbo, M., et al. (2021). The Focal Attention Window Size Explains Letter Substitution Errors in Reading. BRAIN SCIENCES, 11(2 (February 2021)), 1-18 [10.3390/brainsci11020247]. Detail
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Petilli, M., Marini, F., Daini, R. (2020). Distractor context manipulation in visual search: How expectations modulate proactive control. COGNITION, 196 [10.1016/j.cognition.2019.104129]. Detail
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Daini, R. (2019). The Lack of Self-Consciousness in Right Brain-Damaged Patients Can Be due to a Disconnection From the Left Interpreter: The DiLeI Theory. FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY, 10 [10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00349]. Detail
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Daini, R., Vallar, G., Arduino, L. (2018). Why we move to the right? The dominant hand motor-spatial bias. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY. GENERAL, 147(10), 1488-1502 [10.1037/xge0000476]. Detail